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August 2014 Entries

As with all our examples, when we have a high volume of errors occurring we don’t want to spam people. Despite our desire to avoid spam, we also don’t want to lose any data. We want to make sure that details about each exception are sent out. Therefore each email sent may include details about several exceptions.

In this and the next few blog posts I’m going to be going over some examples of how to use Rx to help distribute notifications. I’ve posted all the source code on GitHub. Before we get to the actual examples of managing notifications, this post will cover the preamble of the basic framework of the example program and how to create a stream of data to work with.

Reactive Extensions (Rx) is a set of classes and functions that allow a developer to control data over time. It allows for event streams to be manipulated as easily as collections can be manipulated with LINQ. I like to think of Rx as LINQ but extended out to three dimensions: data, time, and threads.